ASCETIC
Be whatever you like,
close your eyes:
on the desert a burnished stone,
in the murky sea a jewel.
Go wherever you wish,
bind your feet:
through the night where a wing has flown,
towards dawn where a leaf drops cool.
Live however you would,
stay your blood:
with the sky over earth as friend,
at peace with the mind and breath.
Speak whenever you will,
seal your lips:
of this life proclaim time an end,
in the next cry Nazareth.